DAMIR ŠAGOLJ

Journalist, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Damir Šagolj is currently based in Bangkok as the Reuters chief photographer for Thailand and southeast Asia. His first international assignments in 1990s were the historical events in Balkan. As the Balkan was calming down, he started traveling to the Middle East more often - Iran, Lebanon and Israel. After covering 9/11 in New York he moved to Afghanistan and Iraq. His coverage of the coalition troop’s invasion of Iraq was, among other awards, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize as the only second reporter for the non-American media in the history of that prize. Most recently he covered the Japan’s tsunami, Pakistan and Thailand floods, hunger crisis in North Korea, the war crimes tribunal in the Hague, democratic changes in Myanmar... Šagolj’s photographs have been published by world’s leading magazines and newspapers. He is the recipient of several international awards for photojournalism including World Press Photo, POYi, NPPA... He has numerous exhibitions, including a big solo show at Visa D’or in Perpignan.